Why keep trying?

AS LONG AS THERE IS AN UP DOWN IN YOUR
HEAD: OUTER DARKNESS
AS LONG AS YOU'RE IN THE WORLD OF YIN YANG
OUTER DARKNESS
IT TAKES A LOT OF PURIFICATION
PURIFICATION OF WHAT
PURIFICATION OF THOUGHT
PURIFICATION OF BODY
FREEDOM FROM ATTACHMENT

AND AFTER A LONG TIME OF GOING UP AND DOWN WITH-
OUT UNDERSTANDING WHY I WAS GOING UP AND DOWN
OR HOW TO STOP IT

[...]

The next highest or sixth realm is the World of Virgin Spirits. Here those sparks from the divine "Flame" have their being before they commence their long pilgrimage through the five denser Worlds for the purpose of developing latent potentialities into dynamic powers. As the seed unfolds its hidden possibilities by being buried in the soil, so these virgin spirits will, in time, when they have passed through matter (the school of experience), also become divine "Flames," capable of bringing forth universes from themselves....

The Theory of Rebirth teaches that each soul is an integral part of God, enfolding all divine possibilities as the seed enfolds the plant; that by means of repeated existences in an earthly body of gradually improving quality, the latent possibilities are slowly developed into dynamic powers; that none are lost by this process, but that all mankind will ultimately attain the goal of perfection and re-union with God.
-- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel 

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The daimons become reconciled in the one who has found himself, who is the source of all four streams, of the source-bearing earth. From his summit waters flow in all four directions. He is the sea that bears the sun; he is the mountain that carries the sun; he is the father of all four great streams; he is the cross that binds the four great daimons. He is the incorruptible seed of nothingness, which falls accidentally through space. This seed is the beginning, younger than all other beginnings, older than all endings.
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung

 

SLOWLY ... SLOWLY ... IT DAWNED ON ME
NOW WHY DID I KEEP TRYING?
THE ANSWER IS VERY SIMPLE AND ALMOST ALL
OF YOU KNOW THE ANSWER ALREADY
THE ANSWER IS: ONCE THE SEED HAS
BEEN PLANTED
ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN
YOU DON'T HAVE
ANY CHOICE!

source : http://www.american-buddha.com/ramdass.snakepithumansuffer3.htm